Legal Opinion
Parker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 11, 1946No. 4083PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.
Howard B. Parker is here again, this time on appeal from an order of the District Court denying his petition to be finally discharged from further commitment and liability for civil contempt. The petition was based upon the legal proposition, which the court below rejected, that Parker’s supervening discharge in bankruptcy had relieved him from further lia bility for the unpaid amount of a compensatory fine which had been imposed upon him in civil contempt proceedings.
The contempt proceedings grew out of a suit in equity brought by the United States of America and the…
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